+1
WNY is a great location just like Chicago, it’s about damn time someone capitalizes on the long and cold winters.
Typo, my fault. changed.
I am still very interested to see how they work out pulling in dual entry fiber from multiple carriers in the middle of no where…It’s not like this is VA or somewhere else that all the suburbs are lit up…
My guess is they won’t and pm’d you why.
perhaps they will be using the latest technology in catapult design to send data packets.
:roflpicard:
They won’t have to run AC to the building 5 months out of the year right?
You have to run cooling constantly…
If they use all that allotted power they need something like 51216389 BTU of cooling…Not taking into account size of datacenter, lightning and other factors…
It’ll all depend on how they build it out and how much usable raised sq footage they go with for the actual rooms, but yes just as you said cooling has to be constant, have to keep it within specific temps & humidity.
I was going to talk to one of the yahoo-ligans here last week and see if they were apart of the build out up there or not, but forgot to.
Ewwww, two HORRIBLE locations.
:banghead:
IMO, potential/future employees will be living closer to the city of Buffalo and aren’t gonna want to drive to or live in those areas to work. I sure as hell wouldn’t feel safe driving home from Genesee County in the middle of a snowstorm back to West Seneca and I’m sure not everyone can/wants to move closer. No more than 45 minutes driving distance from downtown will be the best location and I will be honestly surprised if they really do build this in either of those two choices.
I will applying for a job there ASAP anyways though. :mamoru:
Yahoo listed average pay at 65 a year for jobs at their datacenter :tif:
Is this happening? Didnt Google want to do one here too but they wouldn’t give them a break on power prices or something so they went elsewhere.
65K in buffalo is not too bad. I am sure that there is better, but that is an average so go after the better.
That probably gets brought down by the guy who sweeps the floors and the security guards though.
what does working at these datacenters entail?
Companies like this usually have on site engineer who change out servers, coordinate break/fix with vendors, life cycle stuff.
HVAC Techs
Electrician
I would imagine they would have some sort of network engineer on site also.
Not bad. Good to see that hopefully some skilled professionals will stay in Buffalo.
Honestly I doubt if there are many well paying positions at a Yahoo DC.
Once its setup and running maintenance is minimal and I would imagine most skilled engineering work is done remotely.
The hard work is the designing once everything is there you could probably pay $15 an hour for someone to handle hardware trouble tickets.
yeah, I guess some progress is better than no progress, though.
Although, that is sort of what I figured. It’s all remote administration really(anyone in this industry knows that). If anything happens to a box that requires a button to be pushed, you have have one or two technicians to handle it.
I forsee building utility maintenance(electricity, HVAC, etc…) as needing the most attention.
This could be a good start though…If the rest of the country figures out WNY is a good place for data centers cheap power(hopefully) ,a large supply fresh water, and we don’t experience many natural disasters.
You don’t get to an average of 65k a year with mostly $15/hr trouble ticket monkeys. That’s just a little over 31k/yr.